Gao Peng
Award-Winning Filmmaker
Best Directorial Debut
Director, Old Gun
Jury Citation
The jury highly praised the maturity and completeness of Gao Peng's directing in Old Gun, finding that he reshapes the aesthetics of genre film with a cool, calm audiovisual language. The film's restrained, minimalist visual storytelling resonates closely with the characters' inner worlds, showing a young director's conscious pursuit of an artistic style.
Old Gun: Synopsis
A silent old gun, and a fight pushed past endurance. Sports shooter Gu Xuebing (Zu Feng) retires for personal reasons and becomes an ordinary clerk in a factory's security department. When he discovers colleagues stealing from the factory and tries to stop them, he finds that Geng Xiaojun (Zhou Zhengjie), the son of Jin Yujia (Qin Hailu), the woman he loves, is also involved. When the thefts lead to an accidental fatal fall, buried crimes come to light, everyone is swept up, and an unavoidable explosion is about to come.